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Kowalska-Kępczyńska A, Mleczko M, Komajda K, Michalska-Jakubus M, Krasowska D, Korpysz M. Extended Inflammation Parameters (EIP) as Markers of Inflammation in Systemic Sclerosis. Int J Inflam 2024; 2024:3786206. [PMID: 39364215 PMCID: PMC11449563 DOI: 10.1155/2024/3786206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2024] [Accepted: 09/16/2024] [Indexed: 10/05/2024] Open
Abstract
Background Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation, progressive vasculopathy, and fibrosis of skin and internal organs. The aim of the study was to evaluate extended inflammatory parameters (EIP) in patients with SSc in comparison to the control group of healthy subjects. Methods A total of 28 patients with SSc and 29 healthy controls (HCs) were included in the study. The following EIP parameters were analyzed: neutrophil reactive intensity (NEUT-RI), neutrophil granularity intensity (NEUT-GI), antibody-synthesizing lymphocytes (AS-LYMP), and reactive lymphocytes (RE-LYMP). Results Patients with SSc showed significantly higher values of parameters determining neutrophil reactivity and neutrophil granularity when compared to HCs (respectively, 49.16 FI vs. 44.33 FI, p < 0.001, and 152.01 SI vs. 147.51 SI, p < 0.001). Moreover, patients with SSc had higher absolute numbers of RE-LYMP than HCs (0.69 × 103/µl vs. 0.04 × 103/µl, p < 0.001). Importantly, significant correlations between the RE-LYMP and either IL-6 (R = 0.447, p < 0.001) or ESR (R = 0.532, p < 0.001) were found among patients with SSc. Conclusions Changes in NEUT-RI, NEUT-GI, and RE-LYMP levels positively correlate with inflammation in SSc and, thus, could potentially be used as an additional reliable inflammatory biomarker to assess inflammation in this disease.
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Affiliation(s)
- Anna Kowalska-Kępczyńska
- Department of Biochemical DiagnosticsChair of Laboratory DiagnosticsMedical University of Lublin, al. Solidarności 8, Lublin 20-081, Poland
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- Department of DermatologyVenereology and Pediatric DermatologyMedical University of Lublin, ul. Staszica 11, Lublin 20-081, Poland
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- Laboratory of Forensic ToxicologyMedical University of Lublin, ul. Jaczewskiego 8b, Lublin 20-080, Poland
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- Department of DermatologyVenereology and Pediatric DermatologyMedical University of Lublin, ul. Staszica 11, Lublin 20-081, Poland
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- Department of DermatologyVenereology and Pediatric DermatologyMedical University of Lublin, ul. Staszica 11, Lublin 20-081, Poland
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- Department of Biochemical DiagnosticsChair of Laboratory DiagnosticsMedical University of Lublin, al. Solidarności 8, Lublin 20-081, Poland
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García de Guadiana-Romualdo L, Díaz López MI, Crespo Álvarez E, Martínez Manzano Á, Urrechaga E, Orgaz Morales MT. Usefulness of the extended inflammatory parameters related to neutrophil activation reported on Sysmex XN-1000 haematology analyser as indicators of acute appendicitis: comparison with canonical inflammatory laboratory tests. Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation 2022; 82:492-494. [PMID: 36047910 DOI: 10.1080/00365513.2022.2116726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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- Luis García de Guadiana-Romualdo
- Laboratory Medicine Department, Hospital Universitario Santa Lucía, Calle Mezquita s/n, Paraje Los Arcos, Cartagena, CP 30202, Spain
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- Laboratory Medicine Department, Hospital Universitario Santa Lucía, Calle Mezquita s/n, Paraje Los Arcos, Cartagena, CP 30202, Spain
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- Biocruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute, Baracaldo, Spain.,Laboratory Medicine Department, Hospital Galdakao-Usansolo, Galdakao, Spain
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- Laboratory Medicine Department, Hospital Universitario Santa Lucía, Calle Mezquita s/n, Paraje Los Arcos, Cartagena, CP 30202, Spain
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Lapić I, Brenčić T, Rogić D, Pozaić P, Juričić G, Honović L. The value of extended inflammatory parameters obtained on Sysmex XN-1000 haematology analyser as early laboratory indicators of COVID-19. Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation 2022; 82:257-259. [DOI: 10.1080/00365513.2022.2056859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Ivana Lapić
- Department of Laboratory Diagnostics, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine, General Hospital Pula, Pula, Croatia
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- Department of Laboratory Diagnostics, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics, Children’s Hospital Srebrnjak, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine, General Hospital Pula, Pula, Croatia
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine, General Hospital Pula, Pula, Croatia
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Wargodsky R, Dela Cruz P, LaFleur J, Yamane D, Kim JS, Benjenk I, Heinz E, Irondi OO, Farrar K, Toma I, Jordan T, Goldman J, McCaffrey TA. RNA Sequencing in COVID-19 patients identifies neutrophil activation biomarkers as a promising diagnostic platform for infections. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0261679. [PMID: 35081105 PMCID: PMC8791486 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Infection with the SARS-CoV2 virus can vary from asymptomatic, or flu-like with moderate disease, up to critically severe. Severe disease, termed COVID-19, involves acute respiratory deterioration that is frequently fatal. To understand the highly variable presentation, and identify biomarkers for disease severity, blood RNA from COVID-19 patient in an intensive care unit was analyzed by whole transcriptome RNA sequencing. Both SARS-CoV2 infection and the severity of COVID-19 syndrome were associated with up to 25-fold increased expression of neutrophil-related transcripts, such as neutrophil defensin 1 (DEFA1), and 3-5-fold reductions in T cell related transcripts such as the T cell receptor (TCR). The DEFA1 RNA level detected SARS-CoV2 viremia with 95.5% sensitivity, when viremia was measured by ddPCR of whole blood RNA. Purified CD15+ neutrophils from COVID-19 patients were increased in abundance and showed striking increases in nuclear DNA staining by DAPI. Concurrently, they showed >10-fold higher elastase activity than normal controls, and correcting for their increased abundance, still showed 5-fold higher elastase activity per cell. Despite higher CD15+ neutrophil elastase activity, elastase activity was extremely low in plasma from the same patients. Collectively, the data supports the model that increased neutrophil and decreased T cell activity is associated with increased COVID-19 severity, and suggests that blood DEFA1 RNA levels and neutrophil elastase activity, both involved in neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), may be informative biomarkers of host immune activity after viral infection.
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- Richard Wargodsky
- Department of Medicine, Division of Genomic Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Department Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Department Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Department of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Department Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Department Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Department Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Department Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Department Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Genomic Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Department of Clinical Research and Leadership The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
- True Bearing Diagnostics, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Genomic Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Genomic Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Genomic Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Department of Clinical Research and Leadership The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
- True Bearing Diagnostics, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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